In article <b1us6r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Devon Miller wrote: > I just got spammed today. Yeah, I know, so what. Well what made this > spam interesting was this: > > #1) it came to a new address that has not gotten any spam so far. This > is an email address that I give out very sparingly. > > #2) while the bulk of the message is unreadable to me > (charset="ks_c_5601-1987") the following phrase came through quite clearly: > (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org)
yeah, you'll probably be getting more of that. > Is there something that can be done to prevent spammers from scraping > email addresses from bugzille? there are a number of suggestions filed in bugzilla (against the bugzilla product) which would help. however, like many of these things, it'll take some work to implement, especially if it is to be done without a big impact on the legitimate uses of email addresses in bugzilla pages. -- Michael
